Policy Projects
CCHP conducts objective policy analysis and research, to identify and promote practice pattern, policy, regulatory, and statutory change that will maximize the effectiveness of telehealth in California.
Telehealth technologies are tools to help achieve health care's "triple aim" of improved patient outcomes and access to care, and cost savings to the health care system.
CCHP develops non-partisan policy recommendations that further these goals.
Recent CCHP is currently conducting policy analysis in these areas:
- Telehealth Advancement Act: This new statute, AB 415, updates California telehealth law and removes policy barriers to telehealth use. The bill's author and sponsor, in drafting this legislation, drew from CCHP's Telehealth Model Statute report. CCHP provided non-partisan technical support on the bill.
- California Telehealth Model Statute: CCHP issued a model statute report that recommends modernizing state telemedicine and workforce laws, to encourage more robust adoption of telehealth technologies;
- Tele-Dermatology in Medi-Cal: This project is examined California’s tele-dermatology workforce, with a focus on the 2007 Medi-Cal tele-dermatology reimbursement law, gauge its impact in boosting use of these technologies;
- Tele-ICU California Assessment Project: NEHI, a national health policy institute, conducted a research project in collaboration with CCHP to examine barriers to use of tele-ICUs, and to identify regions of California that would benefit from expansion of tele-ICUs.
- CMS Telehealth Credentialing Rule: CCHP collaborated with other statewide health organizations in support of a proposal by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide hospitals more flexibility in credentialing telehealth professionals.